[OS X TeX] how to install NOWEB?

[Gert van Oss]

thanks for all hints.
The French language is no problem, the technical stuff maybe. It'll  
take some time to see if I can get it working and these hints  
certainly work.
Merci,
Gert
On 29 Nov 2007, at 17:50, Bruno Voisin wrote:

> Le 29 nov. 07 à 16:50, Gert van Oss a écrit :
>
>> could anyone give me some guidance on how to install NOWEB?
>> - I'm on a Mac OS X machine (Leopard)
>> - comfortable in the terminal, and
>> - downloaded 'noweb-2.11b' from http://www.eecs.harvard.edu/~nr/noweb/dist/ 
>> .
>>
>> After that I looked into the directory 'src' and read the INSTALL  
>> document. However I've just never installed something like this and  
>> the first sentence
>>
>>   1) First point to compilers to be used to built the tools and
>>
>> is not really clear for me. Reading on, more questions arise. If it  
>> is just a few terminal-commands and someone has these at hand I  
>> would be grateful if he/she is willing to share these with me. That  
>> way I can try some LP with Perl as I read about in Elements of  
>> Programming with Perl.
>
> There's a page with some instructions for Panther <http://demexp.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=fr:notes_de_compilation_pour_mac 
> >. It's in French but that shouldn't be a problem : it's just a  
> collection of values for variables to edit in Makefile.
>
> I haven't tested anything, but the instructions adapted to recent OS  
> X TeX would translate to:
>
> - In Terminal (the complexity of the following path comes from the  
> necessity of the instructions to be valid for either gwTeX or MacTeX):
>
> 	cd /Library/TeX/Distributions/.DefaultTeX/Contents/TexmfLocal/tex/ 
> latex
> 	mkdir noweb
>
> It's possible a sudo will be necessary before mkdir.
>
> - Edit the Makefile as follows:
>
> 	CC=gcc
> 	LIBSRC=awk
> 	BIN=/usr/local/bin/
> 	LIB=/usr/local/lib/noweb
> 	MAN=/usr/local/man/noweb
> 	TEXINPUTS=/Library/TeX/Distributions/.DefaultTeX/Contents/ 
> TexmfLocal/tex/latex
> 	ELISP=/dev/null
>
> - Comment out the lines containing ICONC and ICONT.
>
> - In Terminal again (I imagine you have to navigate beforehand back  
> to the noweb/src directory where the Makefile resides):
>
> 	sudo make all install
> 	sudo mktexlsr
>
> Again, this is absolutely untested by me.
>
> MacPorts (formerly DarwinPorts) and Fink may have prebuilt packages  
> for noweb, I'm not sure. Browsing rapidly through MacPorts's  
> portfiles directory, it seems noweb isn't available but a similar  
> nuweb is.
>
> Bruno Voisin
>
>
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